Improved clothes-drier



'annusare @wat chimica EDWARD CARTER, 'or RENssELAER, NEW YORK.

Lezers `Patent No. 94,562, dated-satema?, 7, Y1869.

IMPROVED CLOTHES-DIESER.

m The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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Beit known that I, EDWARD CARTER, of the city and county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and Auseful Improvement on a Machine for ADrying Clothes, known asa clothes-reel or drier; and I do declare thatl the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view.

Figures 2, 3, and 4, sectional elevations.

In iig. 1, a double reel is sh'own.

A is a post, Aeither round, with groove, square, or other shape, on which the inner hub B can be made to slideA up and down Without revolving.

E is a chain-rope or belt, attached to the inner hub at N, as shown in tig. 2, and passing up the groove W, over the roller F, down on the other side, as shown in iig. 2, around the sheave-wbeel J, on the axle K, to which are attached the ratchet-wheel G, and crank H, and pawl I, and then up the groove W to the upper and inner hub B, to which it is attached, at -N.

It will be seeh that by turning the crank H, the axle K ,and wheels G and J are set in motion, carrying with them the chain E,'causing the hub B 'to move up or down the post, in accordance with the mo tion vgiven to'the crank.

C is a revolving hub, resting on and revolving around the inner hub B, in which are sockets or mortises O O, for thearrns D D, on which is stretched the line l P, hooked, as shown at S, in order that the arms can be readily taken out with the lines'attached,

and put under cover when not in use. 1 B Bis another non-revolving hub, as at B, around which is a revolving hub, G (l, as at O, for a second reel, similar to the rst.

B B slides on the post, as does B, but is not attached to the chain, but is supported by the bars M, that are secured to the hub B. l

The bars M M pass loosely through Vthe hub B B, so that when the reels are lowered,`B B rests on the stops L L. The bars M pass down tillthe blib B rests on B B. .l

K is a metal socket, into which the arms are set, in order to facilitate putting up or taking'down.

X is a metal cap or cover, to be fastened to the top of the post A, to roof the working-parts from the weather.

To operate this apparatus, the post must be setup and secured in a perpendicular position, the crank H turned to bring/the hub B B to rest on the stopsL, and B to reston B B; then the set of arms, with line for the upper reel put into K, the arm D, with the rings orgloops, as in g. 3, rst put into 'the mortise O, then the other arms in rotation, and the lines hooked, as at S. Put on -the clothes, in the usual manner, turn the crank H, and elevate the hub B till the bars M h'ook under the vhub B B. Let down the pawl I into the ratchet G, and construct the second reel in the same manner as of the post, and when required down, lift the pawl and reverse the motion of the crank, bringing the reels down.

What Itclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ,is-

'1. The endless chain E and the sheave-wheel J, as arranged and constructedLfor elevating and lowering the inner or non-revolving hub' B, as shown and described.

2. The catch-.bars M M, secured to the hub B, for operating the lower reel B B, as shown and described.

Witnessesz' EDWARD CARTER.

.JAMES S. HAWLEY,

G. E. .'I. D. 000x.

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